How was the German Blitzkrieg influenced by amphetamines during World War II?
World War II breaks out in late 1939. The Germans, you know, their famous Blitzkrieg all about sort of shock and speed and that sort of thing. They were heavy users of meth amphetamine in the first part of the war during the Blitzkrieg period – late 1939 and the first half of 1940. They crushed France in May and June 1940 and they’re using really large amounts of amphetamine the vermouth meth amphetamine at this time and it’s known. It’s known that the Germans, their Blitzkrieg owes something to its’ remarkable speed and sort of the power of the German offensive owes something to meth amphetamine.
